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Government is sleep-walking into a crisis in Anglo-Irish relationships – Adams

Speaking in the Dáil today, Sinn Féin President Gerry
Adams TD told the Taoiseach that he fears “the government is sleep-walking into
a deeper crisis in Anglo-Irish relationships” in relation to the threat from
the British government of a return to direct rule in the North.

Teachta Adams added;

“British rule in Ireland has failed. It failed in this part
of the island and it failed in the North.

“What we need to see is the Good Friday Agreement fully
implemented.

“The current crisis is caused by broken agreements.

“Any return to British direct rule would be a breach of the
St Andrews Agreement. That would be in addition to the other existing breaches.

“So, rather than peddling false information
about the current state of the talks process, the Taoiseach needs to advise the
British Prime Minister that the government is absolutely opposed to any return
to British direct rule and that he expects the British government to fulfil and
to hold to their obligations agreements to which the Irish government is a
co-guarantor.”